Ben Horowitz on losing
Ben Horowitz71 quotes“To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.”
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There are no silver bullets.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz There are no silver bullets.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Adam LaRocheAdam LaRoche “I dont know. You just can’t.” “Oh.” This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.
Adam GidwitzAdam Gidwitz For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
Adam DuritzAdam Duritz Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
Adam DuritzAdam Duritz You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
Adam BraunAdam Braun Due to success I started losing friends.
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